Dehong Liu
- Phone: 617-621-7509
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Research / Technical Staff
Senior Principal Research Scientist -
Education:
Ph.D., Tsinghua University, 2002 -
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Biography
Prior to joining MERL in 2010, Dehong worked at Duke University as a post-doctoral Research Associate (2003-2008), Research Scientist (2008-2010) and Sr. Research Scientist (2010). His main research interests include compressive sensing, signal processing and machine learning.
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL researchers presented four papers and organized a special session at The 14th IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference Date: May 15, 2023 - May 18, 2023
Where: San Francisco, CA
MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Bingnan Wang
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Control, Electric Systems, Machine Learning, Optimization, Signal ProcessingBrief- MERL researchers Yusuke Sakamoto, Anantaram Varatharajan, and
Bingnan Wang presented four papers at IEMDC 2023 held May 15-18 in San Francisco, CA. The topics of the four oral presentations range from electric machine design optimization, to fault detection and sensorless control. Bingnan Wang organized a special session at the conference entitled: Learning-based Electric Machine Design and Optimization. Bingnan Wang and Yusuke Sakamoto together chaired the special session, as well as a session on: Condition Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis.
The 14th IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference: IEMDC 2023, is one of the major conferences in the area of electric machines and drives. The conference was established in 1997 and has taken place every two years thereafter.
- MERL researchers Yusuke Sakamoto, Anantaram Varatharajan, and
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EVENT MERL Contributes to ICASSP 2023 Date: Sunday, June 4, 2023 - Saturday, June 10, 2023
Location: Rhodes Island, Greece
MERL Contacts: Petros T. Boufounos; Francois Germain; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Dehong Liu; Suhas Lohit; Yanting Ma; Hassan Mansour; Joshua Rapp; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Sensing, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Speech & AudioBrief- MERL has made numerous contributions to both the organization and technical program of ICASSP 2023, which is being held in Rhodes Island, Greece from June 4-10, 2023.
Organization
Petros Boufounos is serving as General Co-Chair of the conference this year, where he has been involved in all aspects of conference planning and execution.
Perry Wang is the organizer of a special session on Radar-Assisted Perception (RAP), which will be held on Wednesday, June 7. The session will feature talks on signal processing and deep learning for radar perception, pose estimation, and mutual interference mitigation with speakers from both academia (Carnegie Mellon University, Virginia Tech, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and industry (Mitsubishi Electric, Bosch, Waveye).
Anthony Vetro is the co-organizer of the Workshop on Signal Processing for Autonomous Systems (SPAS), which will be held on Monday, June 5, and feature invited talks from leaders in both academia and industry on timely topics related to autonomous systems.
Sponsorship
MERL is proud to be a Silver Patron of the conference and will participate in the student job fair on Thursday, June 8. Please join this session to learn more about employment opportunities at MERL, including openings for research scientists, post-docs, and interns.
MERL is pleased to be the sponsor of two IEEE Awards that will be presented at the conference. We congratulate Prof. Rabab Ward, the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing, and Prof. Alexander Waibel, the recipient of the 2023 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.
Technical Program
MERL is presenting 13 papers in the main conference on a wide range of topics including source separation and speech enhancement, radar imaging, depth estimation, motor fault detection, time series recovery, and point clouds. One workshop paper has also been accepted for presentation on self-supervised music source separation.
Perry Wang has been invited to give a keynote talk on Wi-Fi sensing and related standards activities at the Workshop on Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), which will be held on Sunday, June 4.
Additionally, Anthony Vetro will present a Perspective Talk on Physics-Grounded Machine Learning, which is scheduled for Thursday, June 8.
About ICASSP
ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event attracts more than 2000 participants each year.
- MERL has made numerous contributions to both the organization and technical program of ICASSP 2023, which is being held in Rhodes Island, Greece from June 4-10, 2023.
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Awards
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AWARD Best paper award at PHMAP 2023 Date: September 14, 2023
Awarded to: Dehong Liu, Anantaram Varatharajan, and Abraham Goldsmith
MERL Contacts: Abraham Goldsmith; Dehong Liu
Research Areas: Electric Systems, Signal ProcessingBrief- MERL researchers Dehong Liu, Anantaram Varatharajan, and Abraham Goldsmith were awarded one of three best paper awards at Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2023 (PHMAP23) held in Tokyo from September 11th to 14th, 2023, for their co-authored paper titled 'Extracting Broken-Rotor-Bar Fault Signature of Varying-Speed Induction Motors.'
PHMAP is a biennial international conference specialized in prognostics and health management. PHMAP23 attracted more than 300 attendees from worldwide and published more than 160 regular papers from academia and industry including aerospace, production, civil engineering, electronics, and so on.
- MERL researchers Dehong Liu, Anantaram Varatharajan, and Abraham Goldsmith were awarded one of three best paper awards at Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2023 (PHMAP23) held in Tokyo from September 11th to 14th, 2023, for their co-authored paper titled 'Extracting Broken-Rotor-Bar Fault Signature of Varying-Speed Induction Motors.'
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AWARD GRSS 2014 Symposium Prize Paper Award Date: May 1, 2014
Awarded to: Dehong Liu and Petros T. Boufounos
Awarded for: "Synthetic Aperture Imaging Using a Randomly Steered Spotlight"
Awarded by: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational SensingBrief- Dehong Liu and Petros T. Boufounos are the recipients of the the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2014 Symposium Prize Paper Award for their paper "Synthetic Aperture Imaging Using a Randomly Steered Spotlight," presented at IGARSS 2013 (TR2013-070).
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Internships with Dehong
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EA1891: Electric machine monitoring technologies
MERL is looking for a self-motivated intern to work on electric machine monitoring, fault detection, and predictive maintenance. The ideal candidate would be a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering or computer science with solid research background in electric machines, signal processing, and machine learning. Proficiency in MATLAB and Simulink is necessary. The intern is expected to collaborate with MERL researchers to perform simulations, analyze experimental data, and prepare manuscripts for scientific publications. The total duration is anticipated to be 3 months and the start date is flexible. This internship requires work that can only be done at MERL.
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MERL Publications
- , "Extracting Broken-Rotor-Bar Fault Signature of Varying-Speed Induction Motors", Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, September 2023.BibTeX TR2023-115 PDF
- @inproceedings{Liu2023sep,
- author = {Liu, Dehong and Anantaram, Varatharajan and Goldsmith, Abraham},
- title = {Extracting Broken-Rotor-Bar Fault Signature of Varying-Speed Induction Motors},
- booktitle = {Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society},
- year = 2023,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-115}
- }
- , "Broken-bar Fault Detection by Injecting a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Signal", IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), May 2023.BibTeX TR2023-039 PDF
- @inproceedings{Liu2023may,
- author = {Liu, Dehong and Varatharajan, Anantaram and Goldsmith, Abraham and Kong, Chuizheng and Sigatapu, Laxman and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {Broken-bar Fault Detection by Injecting a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Signal},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC)},
- year = 2023,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-039}
- }
- , "Sparsity-driven Joint Blind Deconvolution-demodulation with Application to Motor Fault Detection", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10094590, May 2023.BibTeX TR2023-026 PDF
- @inproceedings{Kelkar2023may,
- author = {Kelkar, Varun A. and Liu, Dehong and Inoue, Hiroshi and Kanemaru, Makoto},
- title = {Sparsity-driven Joint Blind Deconvolution-demodulation with Application to Motor Fault Detection},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2023,
- month = may,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10094590},
- isbn = {978-1-7281-6328-4},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-026}
- }
- , "GSR: A Generalized Symbolic Regression Approach", Transactions on Machine Learning Research, January 2023.BibTeX TR2023-002 PDF
- @article{Tohme2023jan,
- author = {Tohme, Tony and Liu, Dehong and Youcef-Toumi, Kamal},
- title = {GSR: A Generalized Symbolic Regression Approach},
- journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
- year = 2023,
- month = jan,
- issn = {2835-8856},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-002}
- }
- , "Robust Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA)-based Fault Detection under Varying Operating Conditions", International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), DOI: 10.1109/ICEMS56177.2022.9983454, November 2022.BibTeX TR2022-150 PDF
- @inproceedings{Liu2022nov2,
- author = {Liu, Dehong and Inoue, Hiroshi and Kanemaru, Makoto},
- title = {Robust Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA)-based Fault Detection under Varying Operating Conditions},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS) 2022},
- year = 2022,
- month = nov,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- doi = {10.1109/ICEMS56177.2022.9983454},
- issn = {2642-5513},
- isbn = {978-1-6654-9302-4},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-150}
- }
- , "Extracting Broken-Rotor-Bar Fault Signature of Varying-Speed Induction Motors", Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, September 2023.
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "Sensing using Inverse Multiple Scattering with Phaseless Measurements"
Inventors: Ma, Yanting; Lodhi, Muhammad Asad; Mansour, Hassan; Boufounos, Petros T.; Liu, Dehong
Patent No.: 11,635,394
Issue Date: Apr 25, 2023 -
Title: "Multi-Layer Axial and Radial flux Vernier Permanent Magnet Motor"
Inventors: Zhou, Lei; Wang, Bingnan; Lin, Chungwei; Liu, Dehong; Wang, Yebin; Teo, Koon Hoo
Patent No.: 11,502,564
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2022 -
Title: "Systems and Methods for Blind Multi-Spectral Image Fusion"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Yu, Lantao; Ma, Yanting; Mansour, Hassan; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 11,481,876
Issue Date: Oct 25, 2022 -
Title: "Estimation Device and Estimation Method"
Inventors: Hana, Norihiko; Akiyoshi, Masao; Liu, Dehong
Patent No.: 11428612
Issue Date: Aug 30, 2022 -
Title: "EMI reduction in PWM inverters using adaptive frequency modulated carriers"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Sugawara, Retsu; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 11,258,357
Issue Date: Feb 22, 2022 -
Title: "Tomographic Imaging System"
Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Kadu, Ajinkya; Boufounos, Petros T.; Liu, Dehong
Patent No.: 11,204,317
Issue Date: Dec 21, 2021 -
Title: "Method for Estimating Bearing Fault Severity for Induction Motors"
Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Zhang, Shen; Kanemaru, Makoto; Lin, Chungwei; Liu, Dehong; Teo, Koon Hoo
Patent No.: 11,099,101
Issue Date: Aug 24, 2021 -
Title: "Robust Image Registration For Multiple Rigid Transformed Images"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Mansour, Hassan; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 10,949,987
Issue Date: Mar 16, 2021 -
Title: "Systems and Methods for Multi-Spectral Image Fusion Using Unrolled Projected Gradient Descent and Convolutinoal Neural Network"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Lohit, Suhas; Mansour, Hassan; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 10,891,527
Issue Date: Jan 12, 2021 -
Title: "System and Method for Robust Sensor Localization Based on Euclidean Distance Matrix"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Mansour, Hassan; Boufounos, Petros T.; Kamilov, Ulugbek
Patent No.: 10,823,845
Issue Date: Nov 3, 2020 -
Title: "System and Method for Fused Radar Imaging Under Position Ambiguity of Antennas"
Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Kamilov, Ulugbek; Liu, Dehong; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 10,677,915
Issue Date: Jun 9, 2020 -
Title: "SPARSITY ENFORCING NEURAL NETWORK"
Inventors: Kamilov, Ulugbek; Mansour, Hassan; Liu, Dehong
Patent No.: 10,657,446
Issue Date: May 19, 2020 -
Title: "System and Method for Determining Structure of Material"
Inventors: Kamilov, Ulugbek; Liu, Dehong; Mansour, Hassan; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 10,571,408
Issue Date: Feb 25, 2020 -
Title: "System and Method for Radar Imaging Using Distributed Moving Platforms Under Unknown Position Perturbations"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Kamilov, Ulugbek; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 10,545,232
Issue Date: Jan 28, 2020 -
Title: "Systems and Methods for Multi-Spectral Image Super-Resolution"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Wen, Bihan; Kamilov, Ulugbek; Mansour, Hassan; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 10,482,576
Issue Date: Nov 19, 2019 -
Title: "ONLINE CONVOLUTIONAL DICTIONARY LEARNING"
Inventors: Kamilov, Ulugbek; Degraux, Kevin; Boufounos, Petros T.; Liu, Dehong
Patent No.: 10,409,888
Issue Date: Sep 10, 2019 -
Title: "System and Method for Processing Images using Online Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Zhang, Zemin; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 10,217,018
Issue Date: Feb 26, 2019 -
Title: "Systems and Methods of Fusing Multi-angle View HD Images Based on Epipolar Geometry and Matrix Completion"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Ma, Yanting; Mansour, Hassan; Kamilov, Ulugbek; Taguchi, Yuichi; Boufounos, Petros T.; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 10,212,410
Issue Date: Feb 19, 2019 -
Title: "Method and System for Autofocus Radar Imaging"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong
Patent No.: 10,209,356
Issue Date: Feb 19, 2019 -
Title: "System and Method for Radar Imaging Using Distributed Arrays and Compressive Sensing"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Kamilov, Ulugbek; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 10,042,046
Issue Date: Aug 7, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method for 3D Imaging using Compressive Sensing with Hyperplane Multi-Baseline Data"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 9,971,031
Issue Date: May 15, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method for Through-the-Wall-Radar-Imaging using Total-Variation Denoising"
Inventors: Handa, Hiroyuki; Mansour, Hassan; Liu, Dehong; Kamilov, Ulugbek
Patent No.: 9,971,019
Issue Date: May 15, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method for 3D Imaging Using a Moving Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Linear Antenna Array"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong
Patent No.: 9,948,362
Issue Date: Apr 17, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method for 3D SAR Imaging using Compressive Sensing with Multi-Platform, Multi-Baseline and Multi-PRF Data"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 9,864,054
Issue Date: Jan 9, 2018 -
Title: "Fault Detection in Induction Motors Based on Current Signature Analysis"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong
Patent No.: 9,618,583
Issue Date: Apr 11, 2017 -
Title: "System and Method for Multiple Spotlight Synthetic Radar Imaging Using Random Beam Steering"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 9,335,410
Issue Date: May 10, 2016 -
Title: "Method and System for Through-the-Wall Imaging using Compressive Sensing and MIMO Antenna Arrays"
Inventors: Boufounos, Petros T.; Li, Li; Liu, Dehong; Mansour, Hassan; Sahinoglu, Zafer
Patent No.: 9,261,592
Issue Date: Feb 16, 2016 -
Title: "Method and System for Random Steerable Sar Using Compressive Sensing"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 9,182,483
Issue Date: Nov 10, 2015 -
Title: "Method for Pan-Sharpening Panchromatic and Multispectral Images Using Wavelet Dictionaries"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 8,699,790
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2014 -
Title: "Method for Pan-Sharpening Panchromatic and Multispectral Images Using Dictionaries"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Boufounos, Petros T.
Patent No.: 8,693,771
Issue Date: Apr 8, 2014 -
Title: "High Resolution SAR Imaging Using Non-Uniform Pulse Timing"
Inventors: Boufounos, Petros T.; Liu, Dehong
Patent No.: 8,487,808
Issue Date: Jul 16, 2013
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Title: "Sensing using Inverse Multiple Scattering with Phaseless Measurements"
